The potential of renewable energy sources is undervalued

Parabolic trough power plant in the test center Plataforma Solar de Almería in Spain.

The study on the ‘The role and potential of renewable energy sources and energy efficiency measures in global energy provision’, run by the DLR for the Federal Environmental Agency, comes to the conclusion that solar technologies such as solar-thermal power plants and photovoltaics have the greatest technical potential globally for electricity generation.